The Thriveabetes Raffle winners were drawn on Saturday, April 30th, in Glor Theatre, Ennis, Co. Clare. We enlisted the help of Imelda who was working at the front desk. Thank you so much for helping, Imelda. We […]

Olivia was diagnosed only a short time before Thriveabetes happened last October. She contacted me to try and meet other newly diagnosed people. We met at Thriveabetes and I have asked her to write about her […]

Last year, we organised a raffle to raise funds towards keeping the cost of Thriveabetes down for delegates. It was extremely sucessful. This was due to our dedicated tickets sellers from the diabetes community, who received free […]

At last years Thriveabetes, it was mentioned on more than one occasion that we should explore providing activities for children and we have made that our highest priority for Thriveabetes 2016. However, we are only […]

Kevin McMahon, co-author of “Sugar SurfingTM – How to manage type 1 diabetes in a modern world” with his long time friend Stephen W. Ponder, MD CDE. Kevin spoke at Thriveabetes 2015 in Maynooth about “There Being No Unicorns in […]

Some weeks back you may remember I posted about the postponement, indefinitely, of the publication of the Health Service’s Model of Care Document for children and teenagers with Type 1 diabetes. It’s kind of like the Irish […]